As I missed out on publishing an “essential reading” post last week and as we are heading towards our final preparations for the Enterprise Digital SUMMIT / Paris I have put together some important links to post that I have been reading and thinking about in the pondering about the “operating model” for the digital enterprise.

Lee Bryant: Transformation at the speed of Haier – Already published in November last year but popping up to my awareness recently this interpretation of the Haier transformation story by Lee Bryant underlines once more very nicely the importance of a platform orientated operating model for the evolution of the company: “Any firm that can manifest its core business value creation processes in a platform, and allow teams to self-organise on top to innovate around customer needs, is likely to unleash evolutionary dynamics that take them forward faster than any management team could achieve through conventional planning alone.”